232 research outputs found

    Risk Management and Mitigation for Building Construction Project in Sangli District

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    Risk analysis as the title suggests this is related to the construction management. Risk analysing technique is used for the purpose of risk management. Which type of risk is occurring and how it is analysed what are various mitigatory methods available. Risk management involves assessing the risk sources and designing strategies and procedures to mitigate those risks to an acceptable level. Measurement of risk factors plays an important role in the assessment of risk. This research proposes to develop risk assessment frameworks and mathematical model to identify the risk factors. Quantification and prioritization of risk factors will help to design controls, resource allocation policies and minimize the total cost. The proposed model can be applied to a complex system that is representative of actual business situations

    Utilization of Jamun Fruit (Syzygium Cumini) for Production of Red Wine

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    Jamun (Syzygium cumini) fruit was utilized for the production of red wine which is offering a lot of health benefits by acting as an effective medicine. The alcohol content of wine varied from 6.62 to 10.25 depending upon the variable concentration of total soluble sugars (7.88 to 10.53%) and varying levels of yeast (5, 10, 15 and 20%). Saccharomyces cerevisiae was used in the process of fermentation. The wine that had 8.22% alcohol obtained by fermentation with 10% yeast level, 8.18% TSS (Treatment T2) was considered to be the best acceptable when compared with others (T1, T3 and T4 Treatments). This wine was found to be the best by the panel members with respect to colour, taste, astringency and flavour. The wine that had 6.62% alcohol obtained by fermentation with 5% yeast level, 7.88% TSS was considered to be the least preferred and less acceptable when compared with others. No significant changes were observed in colour and clarity of wine obtained with 5% addition of yeast. However, with 5% addition of yeast, the taste, flavor and astringency attributes of wine were the least preferred when compared with others. The highest test score for taste, flavour and astringency properties was obtained for Treatment (T2). The time required for fermentation was 7 days at 28 ± 20C. The wine obtained with 15% (9.16% alcohol content) and 20% (10.25% alcohol content) yeast levels were found to have moderately acceptable scores

    Study of Properties of Al LM-25/SIC fabricated by using Stir Casting Method and Wear Analysis by RSM

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    Aluminum MMC’s are widely used in various applications because of their higher mechanical and physical properties when compared with their base Al alloy. This paper focuses on the change in mechanical properties of various Al/SiC composites fabricated by using stir casting method. Effect of SiC reinforcement in different Al alloys on mechanical properties like hardness, tensile strength, wear test, percentage elongation, residual stress measurements are discussed in detail. For this purpose various reinforcement of SiC with 0,4,8 percent weight and different particle sizes are considered along with Al alloys. Variations in process parameters of stir casting are also made and taken into consideration

    Reconstruction Methods for Providing Privacy in Data Mining

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    Data mining is the process of finding correlations or patterns among the dozens of fields in large database. A fruitful direction for data mining research will be the development of techniques that incorporate privacy concerns. Since primary task in our paper is that accurate data which we retrieve should be somewhat changed while providing to users. For this reason, recently much research effort has been devoted for addressing the problem of providing security in data mining. We consider the concrete case of building a decision tree classifier from data in which the values of individual records have been reconstructed. The resulting data records look very different from the original records and the distribution of data values is also very different from the original distribution. By using these reconstructed distribution we are able to build classifiers whose accuracy is comparable to the accuracy of classifiers built with the original data

    Evaluation of anxiolytic activity of encapsulated flax seed oil alone and as an adjuvant in Swiss Albino mice

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    Background: Anxiety is a psychological and physiological state characterized by somatic, emotional, cognitive, and behavioural components with displeasing feeling of fear and concern. Among all the antianxiety drugs benzodiazepines are commonly employed drugs for the treatment but they do have limitations. Considering the high prevalence of anxiety disorders and lack of an ideal anxiolytic drug, search for better anxiolytic drugs continue. Medicinal plants are an inexhaustible source and continue to get explored in the search for new drugs.Methods: Antianxiety activity of Flax seed oil was evaluated in mice using Light-Dark Arena model and Elevated Plus Maze model. Encapsulated Flax seed oil (10ml/kg and 20ml/kg), Diazepam (1mg/kg), Normal saline (10ml/kg) and combination of Encapsulated Flax seed oil and Diazepam (10ml/kg + 1mg/kg) were given orally to the randomly divided 5 groups of 6 animals each. Number of entries and time spent in light arena of Light-Dark Arena model and in open arm of Elevated Plus Maze model were noted and compared among the 5 groups. Observations were analysed using ANOVA and Post hoc Tukey’s test.Results: Encapsulated Flax seed oil alone as well as an adjuvant to Diazepam showed significantly increased number of entries and time spent in light arena of Light-Dark Arena model (<0.05). It also showed significantly (<0.05) increased time spent but not number of entries in open arm of Elevated Plus Maze model.Conclusions: Encapsulated Flax seed oil showed anxiolytic property in Light-Dark arena model and Elevated plus maze model

    GLYCATION INHIBITORS AND PROBIOTICS CAN AMELIORATE THE CHANGES CAUSED BY HIGH FRUCTOSE FEED

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    Objective: To evaluate the use of protein glycation inhibitors and probiotics to ameliorate secondary complications in diabetes and to improve gut microbiota respectively in high fructose fed Wistar rat.Methods: The study was conducted on male Wistar rats for 7 d. Blood glucose levels in oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) were measured using glucometer, serum parameters were analyzed using commercial kits, antioxidant status was evaluated by measuring superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) levels, total reactive oxygen species were estimated using a fluorescent 2', 7'-dichlorofluorescin diacetate (DCF-DA) dye, and tissue fluorescence of liver, kidney and intestine were measured using a spectrofluorimeter.Results: OGTT pattern shows significant increase in blood glucose of fructose fed rats i.e. 154 mg/dl while, in aminoguanidine (AMG) treated and gut microbiota modulated animals it is 137 and 119 mg/dl resp. after 30 min on glucose administration. Marked reduction was found in SOD 6.37 and 11.25 U/mg of protein and catalase 186 and 65.5 U/mg of protein in liver and kidney of fructose fed animals when compared to fructose+AMG and fructose+EUGI. There is 5-6 fold significant increase in general and specific tissue fluorescence of liver and kidney, and 2.2 fold increase in liver reactive oxygen species was observed in fructose fed group as compare to control animals. Significantly higher glycation was found in intestine of fructose fed animals (general fluorescence 2.1 and specific fluorescence 3.1 AU/mg), more than that of diabetic control rats (general fluorescence 0.9 and specific fluorescence 1.6 AU/mg), represented an evidence for adverse impact of excess fructose on healthy gut.Conclusion: The use of protein glycation inhibitor and use of pre and probiotics significantly improved the serum parameters and would prevent progression to secondary complications

    Importance of general examination in diagnosis: a rare case report of a family affected with Albright’s hereditary osteodystrophy

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    Albright’s hereditary osteodystrophy (AHO) is rare constellation of signs associated with pseudohypoparathyroidism (PHP) associated with genomic imprinting in GNAS1 gene. We described a case report of a patient with AHO phenotype with pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (PPHP) with associated chronic liver disease and its complications and her pedigree analysis

    An unusual presentation of rectal atresia with rectal duplication cyst in a neonate: A case report

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    A 10 days old male baby brought with abdominal distension and cystic swelling in the left buttock. Radiological investigationssuggested para-rectal abscess or rectal duplication cyst. Patient underwent transverse loop colostomy and later definitivesurgery by posterior sagittal approach. Intra-operative findings were suggestive of small atretic rectal segment with duplicationcyst of the rectum. To the best of our knowledge, neonatal rectal atresia with rectal duplication cyst has not been reported inEnglish literature
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